banquet

banquet, feast, dinner, party

名词 banquet:

1. a ceremonial dinner party for many people
   同义词：feast
2. a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
   同义词：feast, spread

动词 banquet:

1. provide a feast or banquet for
   同义词：feast, junket
2. partake in a feast or banquet
   同义词：feast, junket

1. The manager was called on to speak at the banquet.
   经理应邀在宴会上讲了话。
2. The president gave the Prince and his attendants a farewell banquet.
   总统为王子和他的随员举行了告别宴会。
3. He met the foreign friends and gave a banquet in their honour.
   他会见了外国朋友，并设宴招待了他们。
4. We gave him a farewell banquet yesterday.
   我们昨天为他举行了告别宴会。

ban.quet

n.（名词）
An elaborate, sumptuous repast.
盛宴：丰盛、豪华的筵席
A ceremonial dinner honoring a particular guest or occasion.
特宴：为某位客人或为庆祝某事而特设的筵席
v.tr.intr.（及物动词和不及物动词）
ban.quet.ed,ban.quet.ing,ban.quets
To honor at or partake of a banquet.
光临或赴宴

来源：
Old French [diminutive of] banc [bench] * see bank 3
古法语 [] banc的小后缀 [长凳] *参见 bank3

【引伸】
ban.queter
n.（名词）
<注释>The linguistic stock of the wordbanquet has been fluctuating for a long time. The Old French wordbanquet, the likely source of our word, is derived from Old Frenchbanc, .bench,. ultimately of Germanic origin. The sense development in Old French seems to have changed from .little bench. to .a meal taken on the family workbench. to .feast..The English wordbanquet is first recorded in a work possibly composed before 475 with reference to a feast held by the god Apollo, and the word appears to have been used from the 5th to the 8th century to refer to the feasts of the powerful and the wealthy.Perhaps this association led a 9th-century newspaper editor to label the word .grandiloquent.because it was being appropriated by those lower down on the social scale.
单词banquet 的词根很长时间来一直有变化。 古法语中的词banquet 可能是我们所使用的词的来源， 是由古法语banc 一词衍生而来的，在日耳曼族语中表.长凳.之意。 而在古法语中其意已由.小椅子.演变为.全家围坐在一起吃的一顿饭.，再演变为.宴席.。英语中的banquet 一词首次记载于475年前一部描写阿波罗神举行的一次宴席的作品中。 从5世纪至8世纪该词一直用于特指权贵们举行的筵宴。也许正是由于这个原因，9世纪一位报纸编辑将该词归为.大言不惭的.一类，因为当时一些中下层人士也开始使用该词了